Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Hey everyone, enjoy these pics of Ye Seul while I'm busy preparing a bunch of articles for when I'll be gone because of work. I'm trying to write two months worth of articles, so bare with the constant shitposts for now.

Sunday, August 28, 2016

For those of you out of the loop, OMG's YooA was recently accused of pulling a Tablo, only this time actually lying about her education, however she's not the one who was lying, so in the end, she kind of is Tablo in this situation.

Friday, August 26, 2016

It's well known that Kpopalypse doesn't like k-pop ballads, but why?
What is it about ballads that makes them suck so much? Are there any
good ballads? If so, what makes a good ballad good, and a bad ballad
bad? Can ballads be bad meaning good? Read on as Kpopalypse explores
the trufax about k-pop ballads!

Thursday, August 25, 2016

Fans of Hyoyeon and Min, who have been friends for a long time, finally get their wish of a collaboration between the two. Unfortunately, it sounds like a piece of a crap Teddy composed. I feel bad for giving this MV a view because it doesn't even deserve a single view.

This has also furthered my conviction that Hyoyeon should never been in a subunit.

Here's OMG's Binnie really going for it. In semi-related news, this week's Girl Group Wars post is going to be delayed until I'm fully moved. Sorry about that -- things should be back to the normal schedule next week, if everything goes according to plan. More pictures of hot girls to apologize for my lack of dedication are below the cut!

Monday, August 22, 2016

Inkigayo is cockblocking IOI. Music Core also cockblocks IOI, but that isn't making the news. Why this is making the news is because IOI possibly could have won on Inkigayo, or at the very least been a lot closer. Actually being there gives you more points or something (I don't know, I stopped caring about music show wins in early 2010 when SNSD was promoting "Run Devil Run", Kara was promoting "Lupin" and T-ara was promoting "I Go Crazy Because Of You" at the same time. Good times, and I stopped caring who won because in the end if you were a fan of all three, we were the winners.)

No, I present an alternative theory. In the age of the SJW, I wouldn't be surprised if someone hasn't said it yet. If someone hasn't actually made this claim, I am shocked.

INKIGAYO IS RACIST AGAINST HALF KOREANS LIKE SOMI! BOYCOTT THE RACIST FUCKERS! THEY DON'T WANT WHITEY ON STAGE!

Sunday, August 21, 2016

As you know, one of the ways for Kpop groups to become really popular is to promote in other avenues aside from music. It's how Kpop lures us all in for the long haul. However, Yang Hyun Suk has found an ingenious way to promote his new group.

Saturday, August 20, 2016

Ohmigosh, hi everybody it's Tiffany here! I'm so happy to be here!
Kpopalypse always gets questions about Korean culture but he doesn't
live in Korea, so he asked me to write something about my favourite
country in the world for you who are thinking of coming to Korea! This
is absolutely unexpected and exciting and humbling all at the same
time! Let's learn all about Korea!

I have no fucking idea why so many people care about my biases in
k-pop, but it seems that plenty of you do because I get asked questions
about this shit all the time even though my bias lists are publicly
available to all. Nevertheless, I'll freely admit that the landscape of
hot women in k-pop has changed somewhat since my last bias list post 18 months ago,
and therefore a revisit of this important topic may be relevant, so
that means it's time for an update! Who is on the Kpopalypse bias list
for 2016?

Welcome to the first round of AKF's Girl Group Wars! The intro post can be found here, and remember you can always follow along with the bracket here. Voting opens now and closes in a week. Let's get cracking!

Sunday, August 14, 2016

I had been thinking about doing it for a while so I finally got my gym membership in March and have been going to for 2-3 times a week as well as minor exercises on other days. So I decided to make a list of my favorite workout songs. These are songs that inspire me to get off my ass or keep going for an extra minute or two so I thought I'd share them. I'm only giving twenty since there are soooooo many songs in k-pop that are suitable for work outs. No particular order either.

Friday, August 12, 2016

With the emergence of YG's new girl group Blackpink who in true YG fashion have debuted a cool, casual 32 months behind schedule, curious caonimas now wish to know what I think of their fandom.

However,
I wasn't sure that answering this question was a good idea. Kpopalypse
blog has always been about teaching k-pop fans to think for themselves
rather just go along what what's trendy or accept what some dickhead on
the Internet spoonfeeds them, even if that dickhead is me. So rather
than just answer these questions simply, I thought - why not give
readers the tools to determine by themselves exactly how insane any given k-pop fandom is? Enter the Kpopalypse Fandom Insanity Scale!

So, Dispatch blew up their spot and now both agencies have confirmed that Seolhyun and Zico are dating ... aka that they are "comfortablesunbae-hoonbaes". Yeah, I bet they're comfortable. Reaaaaal comfortable.

Meanwhile everybody is giving Seolhyun shit for running from a taxi to her man's house (admittedly: it is hilarious) while having the SHEER AUDACITY to wear a short dress in public.

Like A Cat, featuring modesty at its finest

I don't know why people are so shocked at the sight of her legs ... have these people never seen an AOA video before?

4. [+87, -16] How can she go in a man's house dressed like that? Way too short..

You better believe I dress cute when I'm going to see my boyfriend, and I'm nowhere close to being Seolhyun-level hot. No reason to waste that body on sweatpants.

Plus, as we've learned from this truly incredible piece of journalism, Zico knows how to treat a lady right. He might look like a prepubescent girl, always make her come to his place, or even ask her to dress up for him ... but there are some things that are always worth it.

Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Yesterday's debut of BLACKPINK has brought new life to the constant fan wars between girl groups, as Twice fans flood YouTube comment sections worldwide. In honour of the completion of the third generation's holy triumvirate of big-label girl groups, and the fact that AKF is going to be short on posts in the coming months, I've decided to launch a March-Madness-style girl group bracket. Hopefully, through a combination of votes and my own impeccable judgment and taste, we will be able to determine who is the true ruler of third generation girl groups, worthy of joining the Hallyu Pantheon.

It's that time of the year when I basically have to disappear from AKF for the next four months. I will be traveling for work for half of that time (that I know of, could be up to three months once my schedule is settled). I'll still have articles coming out every week (and I even have a series of posts planned that will cover every day in October), but expect the overall activity level on the site to reduce a lot. I know suho_ftw and kalliope start the fall semester for college soon as well, so they probably won't be posting as much either.

I expect to return full time (as opposed to writing short scheduled articles with days-old news) at the end of December when I'm on vacation, but that will be short-lived as I go into the spring busy season.

I guess me being gone for half the year every year is better than closing the site. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Oh, how I wanted to see the day that a female actress/idol has a kiss scene with another female actress/idol. Too bad the other female is Hwadog, the former backup dancer of T-ara. Sorry, but I'm not into bestiality.

2015's solo debuts are reviewed here.
In honour of Fei's sextastic solo debut, I've decided to do a mini review (like, a few sentences. I have a day job) of every single female solo debut from 2015 and 2016 (so far, obviously). Here are the debuts from 2016 so far: